Lakes, Ponds and Wetlands

As the Covid-19 pandemic was leaving deep scars around the globe, it forced governments to take measures to protect citizens and ensure food security for its people. In India, initially, it looked as if the remote rural areas would skirt the pandemic.

UP emerges as the top state in the country to give employment under MGNREGS

Railway stations to be classified based on wastewater generation

Fire breaks at an oil well in Assam damaging ecozones around the site

The nomenclature of cyclones and hurricanes is developed much in advance through multilateral processes in the region. The name Amphan (Sky in Thai and Akash in Bangla) was chosen from a long list of potential disasters long back.

Government approves Jal Jeevan Mission funds for Odisha and Chhattisgarh

Making a landfall in Raigad district, cyclone Nisarga wanes but causes heavy rains in western Maharashtra

Jharkhand government launches three schemes to revive rural economy under the MGNREGA

The exodus of migrant workers from urban areas back to their villages in the wake of country wide lockdown has brought rural poverty into sharp focus. Reconstruction of rural economy therefore needs policy and planning attention.